About John Tyner
John Tyner joined Langdon & Emison in 2019 with substantial litigation experience in federal and state courts. He devotes his practice to helping people who have been catastrophically injured or have lost loved ones in accidents involving defective products, trucking accidents, premises liability, and other instances of negligence. In 2025, he was accepted into membership in the National Trial Lawyers Products Liability Top 25 for his work on cases involving defective products.
Before joining Langdon & Emison, John was a shareholder at Polsinelli, P.C. in Kansas City from 2007 to 2019, where he first- and second-chaired jury trials and bench trials in U.S. District Courts and other state courts. Prior to that he clerked for the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District. John is a 2006 graduate of The University of Iowa College of Law, graduating with distinction, and earned his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in Business Administration.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Langdon & Emison
These results are credited to Langdon & Emison. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Chittenden County jury returned $43,101,162 against Johnson Controls, the seat manufacturer, after a Vermont woman was left with a catastrophic spinal-cord injury when the single-sided recliner mechanism in her car seat collapsed during a rear-end collision she should have survived. The trial court entered final judgment at $36,948,123, and the appeal was later dismissed by stipulation.
A Jackson County jury held Ford Motor Company liable for a defective fuel tank design after three members of a Missouri family burned to death when their F-150 pickup ruptured and ignited during a 1999 highway collision.
A 1993 federal jury awarded $11.3 million to the sons of Beverly Garner, a passenger killed when a defective fuel pump ignited an engine fire in her 1985 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer, a verdict whose admissibility fight over a former GM insider's testimony traveled all the way to a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the plaintiffs' favor.
A Cook County jury awarded locomotive engineer Christopher Cravatta $5.3 million under FELA after he slipped on oil-coated flooring and an icy step-down gap at Chicago's Union Station, suffered a disc tear requiring spinal fusion, and was permanently disqualified from railroad work.
A federal jury awarded $4.5 million to U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Aaron Eckerberg after a commercial van driver for Inter-State Studio and Publishing Co. blew a stop sign on a Missouri highway and slammed into his truck, causing a fractured thoracic vertebra and traumatic brain injury that ended his career as a combat helicopter pilot.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
